A rooftop deck, an overhauled kitchen and ample glazing are among the notable features in a 50-year-old dwelling in Washington that has been renovated by US firm Wittman Estes Architecture + Landscape. More about Wittman Estes brightens up 1960s home in the Pacific Northwest
The brick-clad Nithurst Farm contains grand concrete rooms that are modelled on the Russian science-fiction film, Stalker. More about Adam Richards models his home on Roman architecture and Soviet-era science fiction
A red "cannonball" pulley system is among the distinctive features of a 1950s beach house by American architect Paul Rudolph that will be auctioned off next week by Sotheby's. More about Paul Rudolph's Walker Guest House in coastal Florida goes up for auction
Dark grey cladding, snowy white interiors and ample natural light feature in this home with a basement apartment, designed by Canadian studio D'Arcy Jones Architects for an extended family. More about Vancouver home by D'Arcy Jones Architects designed to mesh with neighbouring buildings
A serene meditation room overlooking the Pacific Ocean is lit by a large round skylight in this seaside retreat designed by Mexico City studio Colectivo Lateral de Arquitectura. More about Circular rooflight illuminates meditation room in Mexican beach house
Norwegian studio Rever & Drage has completed 1/3 House, a building that one part house and two parts empty space. More about Rever & Drage builds one third of a house for a deer hunter in Norway
Larch planks finished with matt black barn paint were used to clad this extension of a Victorian terrace in London, designed by architect Harry Thomson. More about Black-painted larch planks clad extension to a house in London
Montreal studio Thomas Balaban Architect has turned a gabled farmhouse in Quebec's Eastern Townships completely white, and then contrasted it with an extension covered in weathered cedar cladding. More about TBA adds cedar-clad extension to white farmhouse in Quebec
Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates used corner windows for a concrete house with views of the sea and Itsukushima Shrine in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture. More about Hilltop concrete house frames views of the sea and a shrine in Japan
Long Island architecture studio Kevin O'Sullivan + Associates has created a house in Amagansett, New York with wood prevalent inside and out to highlight the vernacular architecture in the region. More about KOS+A builds cedar-clad Amagansett house with wood interiors
This luxury holiday home in the Maldives has an aquarium-like underwater bedroom suite where guests can watch marine life while they rest, wash and get dressed. More about Maldives villa The Muraka has a bedroom under the sea
Architecture studio NOARQ has extended a stone villa in Portugal with a bright red cabin perched on thick blocks of granite above the entrance. More about NOARQ renovates stone villa in Portugal with bright red details
Montreal designer Louis Beliveau of La Firme studio has overhauled a decrepit barn in Quebec by turning its hollow core into a holiday home for two city dwellers. More about La Firme turns abandoned shed into Quebec home The Barn
A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo.
More about Hidden corridor connects different parts of Dutch homestead by Mecanoo
American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a residence in Phoenix that features a mix of gabled and flat volumes wrapped in corrugated metal, white stucco and honey-toned wood. More about The Ranch Mine creates modern courtyard home in the Arizona desert
Tiles strung on steel cables and an inverted roof are among the quirky design features of this home designed by architect Daniel Moreno Flores on the outskirts of Quito. More about Daniel Moreno Flores creates hanging-tile screen as entrance to illustrator's home near Quito
Spanish architect Jesús Perales created rooms that overlap in this house in Catalonia, to help the resident family spend more time together. More about Casa Almudena designed by Jesús Perales to bring a family closer together
A "dream home" built on the "tightest of budgets" by architects McGonigle McGrath has been named by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the UK's best house of 2019. More about House Lessans in rural Northern Ireland wins RIBA House of the Year 2019
Interior designer Jessica Helgerson has overhauled a home in Portland, Oregon to include decorative ceilings, floral wallpaper and shades of green and grey that evoke its rainy, cool climate. More about Jessica Helgerson uses "moody, green, lush" palette for Portland home renovation
American studio Heliotrope Architects has created a holiday home for art gallery owners that is wrapped in dark metal, white stucco and large stretches of glass. More about Heliotrope tucks Collector's Retreat into lush wooded site in coastal Washington